Sample Sources
The sources below are those contained in our three curated collections—covering themes of Passover, Gender Roles, and Holocaust Resistance. They represent a fraction of the thousands of sources that will be available when the full site launches in 2024.
On the Seer of Lublin’s Court
When one comes to Lublin he should imagine to himself that Lublin is Eretz Israel, that the courtyard of the study house is Jerusalem, that the study house is the Temple Mount, that his apartment is…
Bukhari-Russian-Hebrew Dictionary
Title pages from Bukhari-Russian-Hebrew Dictionary, the first trilingual dictionary for Bukhari, Hebrew, and Russian.
Detective Comics, May 1939: The Amazing and Unique Adventures of the Batman, cover
Batman is one of the longest-running comic series in the world, in continuous publication since 1939. When it made its debut, it was unique in featuring a hero who was an ordinary man without…
Masterpiece
The title of Masterpiece offers an ironic commentary on the career of its rising star artist, Roy Lichtenstein. It features a blonde woman and “Brad,” a recurring character in Lichtenstein’s comic…
“Le people juif . . . sur de lui-même et dominateur . . .” (“The Jews, a People Sure of Itself and Domineering, . . .” Charles de Gaulle)
Louis Mitelberg drew this cartoon in ironic response to a 1967 comment made by French president Charles De Gaulle in the wake of the Six Day War, in which he described the Jewish people (now that they…
Zoo Eretz Zoo
God creates the universe in seven days. Soon after the job’s done, he throws Adam and Eve out of their place for disobeying orders. The couple…
Peacock Thanksgiving
An imaginary Thanksgiving dinner attended by the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty, George Washington, a Halloween witch, and a strutting peacock. A version of this…
Cookalein
“Cookalein” is a story from Will Eisner’s graphic novel, A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories. The “cookalein” (or kuchalein, “cook for yourself”) was a popular and affordable type of…
American Splendor
“Standing Behind Old Jewish Ladies in Supermarket Lines” is a comic from Harvey Pekar’s autobiographical comic series American Splendor, which focused on everyday life in Cleveland, Ohio. Not an…
Yitzhak Shamir
In this caricature, which appeared in the June 6, 1988, issue of the New York Review of Books during the first Palestinian intifada, David Levine depicts Yitzhak Shamir (1915–2012), the seventh prime…